"A terrible beauty is born"
Uma das mais extraordinárias, belas e assustadoras cenas de cinema que alguma vez foi feita.
sexta-feira, julho 11, 2008
The Don Juan Files
"He laughed:'What do you think it means to be an womanizer?', he said (it was one of his favourite words in English, he liked to roll it on his tongue, wo-man-i-zer). 'A womanizer is a man who breaks you up and makes you come together again like a woman. Like an a-tom-i-zer that break you up unto atoms. It is only men who hate womanizers, from jealousy. Women appreciate a womanizer. A woman and a womanizer belong naturally together' ".
JM Coetzee, Diary of a bad year
"He laughed:'What do you think it means to be an womanizer?', he said (it was one of his favourite words in English, he liked to roll it on his tongue, wo-man-i-zer). 'A womanizer is a man who breaks you up and makes you come together again like a woman. Like an a-tom-i-zer that break you up unto atoms. It is only men who hate womanizers, from jealousy. Women appreciate a womanizer. A woman and a womanizer belong naturally together' ".
JM Coetzee, Diary of a bad year
The Don Juan Files
"In his youth in Hungary, said Gyula, he had been a great womanizer. But as he grow older, though he remained as keenly receptive to feminine beauty as ever, the need to make love to women in the flesh receded.(...)
Such outward chastity was possible, he said, because he had mastered the art of conducting love affairs through all its steps, from infatuation to consumation, wholly within his mind"
JM Coetzee, Diary of a bad year
Pet Shop Boys feat. Rufus Wainwright: Casanova in hell
"In his youth in Hungary, said Gyula, he had been a great womanizer. But as he grow older, though he remained as keenly receptive to feminine beauty as ever, the need to make love to women in the flesh receded.(...)
Such outward chastity was possible, he said, because he had mastered the art of conducting love affairs through all its steps, from infatuation to consumation, wholly within his mind"
JM Coetzee, Diary of a bad year
Pet Shop Boys feat. Rufus Wainwright: Casanova in hell
No fundo este post é inútil
Andava para aqui com umas ânsias, umas insónias recorrentes por não me apetecer escrever o que seja neste cantinho. Até que houve alguém (uma amiga ex-mulher de outro amigo meu) que me disse em ocasião mais confessional:"No fundo tu e o R. (o ex-marido) são muito parecidos. Têm um grande complexo de donjuanismo, gostam da sedução pela sedução. Quem quiser ser vossa mulher tem de ser várias ao mesmo tempo, para isso poder acontecer. E isso é dificil, é impossivel. As mulheres adoram homens assim porque sabem que eles adoram mulheres. Mas a verdade é que pessoas como vocês acabam sempre sózinhas". Pode não ser bem assim, mas é o que ela vê.
De maneira que rapidamente alinhavei para aqui no moleskine uma passagem de Coetzee sobre os womanizers , as cartas de Byron em que contabilizava as suas conquistas mais alguns versos do seu Don Juan, recortes de ensaios psicanalíticos sobre o fenómeno ou até citações do Don Giovanni de Mozart. Está aqui tudo pronto a sair, mas é a sombra da dúvida sobre aquela solidão que me adivinharam que não me deixa escrever.
